Putting newborn babies to sleep

[kandrathe]

My wife and I were really lucky with my son. At about 1 week old he started sleeping solidly through the night, and has been that way ever since. Even now that he's a little older (7), he can be bouncing off the walls with activity but when we say "it's bedtime", we get no argument and he trundles happily off to bed and is out like a light 5 minutes later.

Lemmesee... Last night, my eldest (now 10) was into bed at 9:30... Finally stopped reading books at 11:30... Listened to book on CD until 1:00, then finally came in at 1:30am complaining that he couldn't fall asleep. It was predictable since we had rain most of the day, and he lounged around, played a couple of hours of PS2, and read. Unless he gets 3-4 hours of serious exercise, my son won't sleep. When I left home this morning at 7:30am, he was still asleep, and he'll probably sleep until 9am, unless his younger brother does something stupid to wake him up. But, all in all, raising boys is pretty easy. When they start arguing and fighting, you feed them, and then send them outside to do something very physical. They will come back exhausted after an hour or so, then you feed them again. Rinse. Repeat.